installation-guide (2008xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Remove everything about DECstation since these machines are no longer supported. * Provide information about all iop32x and orion5x installation media. * Describe Orion and Versatile as supported platforms. * Fix the NSLU2 download link. * Describe MIPS Malta. * Document netcfg/get_gateway=none [ Frans Pop ] * Update copyright to 2008. * Update description of country selection in line with recent changes in localechooser. * Request output of lspci -knn in installation reports. * Apply patch from Frank Lichtenheld to improve netboot instructions for PowerPC. Closes: #275565. [ Joey Hess ] * Comment out partman-auto/disk setting in preseed since lenny d-i will automatically work w/o it if there's just 1 disk. Closes: #490287 * Document hw-detect/load_firmware. Closes: #493845 [ Ryan Niebur ] * Added documentation for RAID 6 and 10. -- Frans Pop Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:06:28 +0200 installation-guide (20080520) unstable; urgency=medium [ Frans Pop ] * Clarify console switching for the graphical installer. Thanks to Tim Richardson for the suggestion. [ Colin Watson ] * Spell "multiselect" correctly in apt-setup/services-select preseeding example. * Note that an empty preseed file is equivalent to a normal manual installation (thanks, Nathan Sutton). [ Robert Millan ] * Document how to start the installer from Windows. [ Frans Pop ] * Document installation using multiple CD/DVDs; update text about using a mirror in line with that. * Lenny will be version 5.0. * Warn about boot issues when using RAID on the root file system. * Update task selection section for changes in desktop task preseeding. * Fix double / in links, spotted by Stanislav Gromov. Closes: #472813. * Document new boot parameters to define mouse protocol and device (port) for the graphical installer. * Correct command to use to allow preseeding of netcfg when using a preconfiguration file downloaded from a server (preseed/url). Thanks to Durk Strooisma for the report and analysis. Closes: #476524. * Specify for which release the example preseed file is valid. * Document preseeding of grub password. * Update how to suppress the removal of existing LVM data using preseeding. * Update version of X11 used in Lenny. * Update kernel versions. * Update memory requirements for i386 and amd64. Elaborate on installing systems with less memory than the listed minimum. * Update known issues for graphical installer: entropy gathering for encrypted partitioning is now supported; localechooser now has nice columns but other components still need to be done. * Document finish-install/keep-consoles boot parameter and preseeding. * Define two new translatable entities: escapekey and tabkey. * Update task sizes, and number of packages and developers. * x86: update description of the boot screen for the new syslinux vesamenu. [ Joey Hess ] * Remove autopartkit from the module list. [ Frans Pop ] * Disable Catalan, Korean and Japanese translations as they are incomplete. * Upload with priority medium because of D-I Beta 2 release. -- Frans Pop Sat, 10 May 2008 17:59:43 +0200 installation-guide (20080211) unstable; urgency=low [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Remove all information about RiscPC because these machines are no longer supported. [ Joey Hess ] * Document the new tasksel/desktop preseed for lenny. [ Frans Pop ] * Add cm-super to build dependencies as that improves the quality of the Russian PDF version. * Suggest 'nousb' instead of debian-installer/probe/usb as USB modules are now loaded automatically. * Fix incorrect instruction for preseeding local repositories. Thanks to Rémi Demarthe. Closes: #420894. * Add translatable entities for Continue, Cancel and Go Back buttons. * Add build dependencies on texlive-lang-* packages for languages for which the manual has translations. * Document new boot parameters "lowmem" and "dmraid". * Document new location of graphical mini.iso images. * Document base-installer/kernel/image preseed. [ Joey Hess ] * Document new lilo-installer/skip preseed. * Document passwd/user-default-groups preseed. [ Colin Watson ] * Recommend preseeding mirror/country to "manual" rather than "enter information manually" (choose-mirror 2.17). * Remove text talking about devfs-style device names, which are no longer supported. * preparing/minimum-hardware-reqts.xml: Pluralise "gigabyte" consistently. [ Joey Hess ] * Document clock-setup/ntp. [ Frans Pop ] * Support for sparc32 has been discontinued for Lenny. This also means that booting from floppy is no longer supported for sparc. * Extend the documentation of apt-setup, especially the decision whether or not to use a network mirror. Document selection of services. * Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds. * Add some information about creating device files in the appendix on chroot installs; also add a note that the appendix only covers the basic steps of a chroot install. * Warn against installing Debian while another OS is hibernated. [ Joey Hess ] * Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter what it's name is. * debian/rules: call dh_md5sums. * Document debian-installer/exit/halt preseed. [ Colin Watson ] * Clarify that you need to actually provide an autopartitioning method as well as preseeding the partman confirmation messages. [ Frans Pop ] * Make copyright refer explicitly to GPL version 2 as that is the version included in the appendix; add reference to /usr/share/common-licenses to make Lintian happy. * Rename doc-base.TEMPLATE to TEMPLATE.doc-base to avoid its inclusion in the package for the first architecture. Closes: #416304. * Modify language codes that include a country for the doc-base document ID so they only contain valid characters. * Remove the PDF section in doc-base files if PDF format is not built for a language. * Update standards version to 3.7.3; no changes needed. * Patch from Changwoo Ryu to replace Hangul-ucs with ko.tex fonts for Korean PDF version of the manual. Closes: #457137. * using-d-i: - move clock-setup, tzsetup and user-setup to reflect their changed position in the installation procedure - mention that clock-setup will now attempt to set the system time from a time server - split clock-setup as part is now executed during finish-install - add instructions on how a different time zone from the one(s) that match the selected location can be set (as that is a FAQ) - improve readability of partman section by using separate subsections for guided and manual partitioning - network-console: add information about dropped connections and how to avoid that (closes: #458154); add footnote with command to remove a host from the known_hosts file * howto, preseed: update for reordering of the installation procedure. * Change build dependency on gs-common to ghostscript. * Use --previous when updating PO files so translators can see the changes in a string. [ Colin Watson ] * Use &releasename; rather than hardcoding etch in sources.list recommendation for chroot installs. Closes: #458459. [ Frans Pop ] * Make UTF-8 the default encoding for the text version for all languages that still used ISO-8859-1. * Korean text version changed to UTF-8 on request of Changwoo Ryu. * Japanese text version changed to UTF-8 on request of KURASAWA Nozomu. * Enable PDF for Korean for website builds. * Disable Finnish, Hungarian and Spanish for this release as they have not been updated. -- Frans Pop Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:35:22 +0100 installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low [ Frans Pop ] * Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones. * Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated. Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515. * Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website. * appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290. * boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter. [ Joey Hess ] * Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all translations. Closes: #408408 [ Frans Pop ] * welcome: - make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317) - we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129) Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes. * using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM. Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399. * Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor. Closes: #408340. * installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I. * appendix/preseed: - as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no real need to document it anymore - add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples - document how to select the ftp protocol during mirror selection - document how to install from CD/DVD only (and not use a network mirror) * Update base/standard system and task sizes. [ Joey Hess ] * Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated. [ Wouter Verhelst ] * Update mac68k installation after notes from Finn Thain, upstream mac68k kernel hacker. [ Frans Pop ] * Replace entity in example-preseed.txt file. Thanks to Geert Stappers for spotting the error. Closes: #413257. -- Frans Pop Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:12 +0100 installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low * Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again. * Enable new Hungarian translation. -- Frans Pop Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:57 +0100 installation-guide (20070115) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Document new pkgsel/include setting. * Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources. * Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation (https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164). * Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765). [ Frans Pop ] * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing. Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425. * Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation. * Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get. * Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix. * Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes. * Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode. Some of the bigger changes include: - Update of processor support for the i386 architecture. - Update information on setting up a RARP server. * Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977. * Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such. * Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors. * Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support. * Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen. Closes: #248067. [ Miroslav Kure ] * Update information about booting with encrypted partitions. Closes: #378651. [ Joey Hess ] * Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev [ Changwoo Ryu ] * Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex. Closes: #381657. [ David Härdeman ] * Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto. [ Frans Pop ] * Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme. Closes: #386591. * Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321. * Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138. * Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel. * Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg. * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17. * Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts. * Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental. * Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support. * Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture. * buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver. * Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471. * Update task sizes as per D-I RC1. * New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems. * Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot. * Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel. [ Joey Hess ] * Update for recent floppy changes. * Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh. * Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds. (See #393641) * Update the installation report template to match current one in installation-report. [ Philip Hands ] * Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's bootloader's command line. [ Joey Hess ] * Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910 * Document auto=true boot parameter. [ Frans Pop ] * Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer. * Document mouse/left boot parameter. * Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables intended for the target system at the boot prompt. * Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt. * Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME. * Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section. * Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790. * Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974. [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete. * Mention Intel IOP32x support. * Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2. [ Frans Pop ] * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18. * Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588. * Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and for his overview of issues. * Etch ships with X.Org 7.1. * Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists. * General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual. * Update of installed/download size of tasks. * Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues. * Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts. * bookinfo: - Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch. * hardware: - Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035. - Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov. Closes: #389516. - PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table. - Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table. - Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches) and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware. * preparing: - Clean out ancient hardware issues. * boot-installer/parameters: - Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters. - Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters. - Document new option to blacklist kernel modules. * boot-installer/trouble: - Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439. - Add a note that installation reports will be published. * install-methods: - All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove the "supports-dhcp" condition. - According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP. - Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2). - tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples. Closes: #342076. * using-d-i: - Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263. * boot-new: - Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492. - As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser. - Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser. - Mention documentation packages. - Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of problems. * post-install: - Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it automatically after all. Closes: #402437. - Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857. * appendix/preseed: - Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing. Closes: #397923. * appendix/chroot-install: - Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929. [ Frans Pop ] * Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real release targeted at Etch will be next week. * Add and enable amd64 architecture. * Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures. * Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are not yet complete. * Enable Finnish translation. -- Frans Pop Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100 installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel stuff. * Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about compiling disk drivers into the kernel. * Document new passwd/root-login setting. * Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current installer images. * Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding. * Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks. [ Frans Pop ] * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. * chroot-install: - add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517) - make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482) * Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader configuration (closes: #309889). * Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation. * Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks to Holger Wansing. * Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations. Initially two have been defined: - a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation; - a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations. [ Joey Hess ] * Document new preseed/run setting. * Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation, and. notably, renames one of the xml files. * hd-media size changed to 256 mb. * Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface. [ Frans Pop ] * Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section. [ Martin Michlmayr ] * The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc". * As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour has been dropped. [ Holger Levsen ] * Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs (closes: #364546). * Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved unsupported machines to the end. * Updated the information about existing kernel flavours. [ Miroslav Kure ] * Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto). * Update XOrg to 7.0. [ Frans Pop ] * Etch has been assigned version 4.0. * Update kernel versions to 2.6.16. * Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages. * arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels. * Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release. * Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete. -- Frans Pop Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200 installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * Update preseeding docs for base-config removal. * Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with preseeding. * Remove the sarge preseeding docs. * Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere. * Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and pkgsel. * Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4 (syslog). * Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer. * Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config. * Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier. [ Frans Pop ] * Change default build to Etch. * Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default. * Delete some obsolete entities. * Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide. * Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15 (closes: #360241). * Update appendix on chroot installs: - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands; - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap. [ Colin Watson ] * Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual. * Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86. * Document how to pick a particular interface with netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a preseed file. * Remove obsolete substvar. * Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl. [ Joey Hess ] * Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails. * Update copyright date. * It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about it not working. * Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24 and preseed 1.13. [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add NSLU2. * Fix Netwinder/CATS download location. * Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions. * The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems. * Mention NSLU2 download location. * Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2. * Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine. [ Frans Pop ] * Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system. * Document how to create a preconfiguration file. * Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release. * Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete. -- Frans Pop Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200 installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low [ Frans Pop ] * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382. * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture. * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch. * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from new appendix. * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files. * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese. * First release of Greek and Korean translations. * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated. * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ). [ Joey Hess ] * Update installation report template and instructions for etch. -- Frans Pop Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100 installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low * Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual. Closes: #334925 * Register installed documents with doc-base. * Minor updates in English text and translations. -- Frans Pop Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200 installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * Split off from the debian-installer source package. See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries. [ Frans Pop ] * Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate packages for each arch containing all translations. * Change package name to installation-guide. * Include translations already available on official website. -- Frans Pop Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200